When they called him,
he got out of a van,
down by the river.
Posted on 02/29/2008 12:33:46 PM PST by NYC GOP Chick
A supervisor at a motivational coaching business in Utah allegedly used waterboarding on a member of his sales team to motivate staff, according to a lawsuit filed by an employee, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Chad Hudgens, a former salesman for Prosper, Inc., in Provo, Utah, alleges his manager, Joshua Christopherson, asked him to lie on a hill before he poured water from a gallon jug into Hudgens' mouth and nostrils as other sales staff held him down, the paper reports. "At the conclusion of his abusive demonstration, Christopherson told the team that he wanted them to work as hard on making sales as Chad had worked to breathe while he was being waterboarded," the paper said the suit alleges. The lawsuit was filed in January. Company President Dave Ellis told the Salt Lake Tribune that the allegations were "sensationalized" and uncorroborated by co-workers regarding the May incident. "They just roll their eyes and say, 'This is ridiculous. ... That's not how it went down,'" Ellis told the paper. Hudgens' suit claims the manager "intentionally engaged in physically and emotionally abusive conduct" to punish workers who did not meet company performance goals, the paper said.
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Yep. Sort of like image consultants and other useless “careers.”
Thanks! Same to you.
So...did their sales improve?
Not if you’re into motiviational seminar stuff. :0D The firm I work for is driving us nuts with this stuff. Last seminar we had to bat a balloon back and forth to simulate team work (I walked out). The one after that we had to play with play doe, pipe cleaners and paper plates. Most of us are in our forties and fifties. I walked out of that, too.
One thing about America: You can sue ANYONE for ANYTHING!
I’d much prefer waterboarding to some of the staff meetings at our company.
If you said that in the corporate environment,in regards to the motivational coaches your boss selected, you would be derided as being not very smart and not being a team player. The CEO can be buck naked and you have to go along with his delusion, if you want to remain a player.
So it is with the “motivational coaching business”.
Americans love a good cult now and then.
Homey don't play that.
You have provided my Freeper chuckle for the day. Thank you
the manager “intentionally engaged in physically and emotionally abusive conduct” to punish workers who did not meet company performance goals, the paper said.
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This works if the salespeople can convince customers. I advised my sales staff to show customers their wounds and cry during sales calls and beg for their business so that they could avoid further torture.
The newest step in the “Dynamic leadership model and employee motivation matrix”?
Oooooh! Waterboarding. Big f’n deal. I had to attend cultural sensitivity training - TWICE!
I hope my boss doesn’t see this!
When they called him,
he got out of a van,
down by the river.
Homey don't play that.
Sorry, but it's true.
Oh, I know it’s true. I’m just lucky enough not to have to play that game.
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